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How can I learn more about server-side technologies?

Get yourself a VPS, set it up from scratch and run some non-critical websites on it (nothing with private user data since you can’t be sure you’ll set it up securely). Both Slicehost and Linode offer a good set of guides to a whole host of common tasks:

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3:21 pm / 14th October 2012 / django, programming, servers, webservers, quora

How can I determine which web server a particular website is using (Apache, IIS, Nginx, etc)?

If you’re on Linux or OS X, use curl with the -I option (to make a HEAD request and see the HTTP headers):

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1:37 pm / 5th January 2011 / apache, iis, nginx, servers, webdevelopment, webservers, quora

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